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4 thoughts on “Christianity: Am I Doing It Right?”

So good. Simple. True. It’s often how we live though, right? In the same vein, we assume that God doesn’t love me if I can’t find the closest parking spot at the grocery store, or if I get pulled over for speeding, or any other plethora of scenarios that doesn’t appear to be “blessings”, but confirmations that I must have done something to remove God’s love.

We do indeed live that way at times, Holly. It seems the keyword at play underneath it is “ego”. We congratulate ourselves for having “chosen wisely” a la Indiana Jones choosing the carpenter’s cup when things go well for us. As for the reverse — believing we must be at fault somehow when things go badly — that God is “punishing” us in some small way (bad parking spot, getting pulled over, etc.) — I hadn’t thought about that angle! Nice one.

Thanks! It’s an angle I think about a lot. Mostly because I tend to complain to God: “why is THIS happening to me?!?” Because for some reason I think I should be exempt from hardship. Or I wish I were. Ya know?